Welcome to the Munya School

Zach and Esther started back to school this week.  Kate and Josh aren’t due back until the 15th.  Zach was ready to go yesterday, but Esther …well… she did her work, but under some duress.  Today everything was fine though.

I was a bit amazed how much Zach retained after nearly 2 months off. He did great. We’re still figuring out what works for him and what doesn’t. He thinks and learns differently than the others; and his trouble with labels vs. his understanding of concepts causes us to continue to look for solutions. However, because I’ve found he responds so well to lapbooking, we are returning to them this year.

Last year we didn’t do any lapbooks; and apparently they missed them. When I was workign with Esther and Zach today on the two lapbooks we started this week, Kate asked if she and Josh could do lapbooks again this year too. They just seem to really enjoy aspect of creating a tangible product from their schoolwork – combining the art with the activity.  Should be interesting to see how it all goes.

Well, Finally, after months and months of  dog-related research and waiting, my daughter Kate got her puppy – for her 12th birthday no less.   I posted more of the journey on how she got her dog on the Living Life at Home blog. But here are  a few pictures of Kate’s new bundle of fur, Jazzy.

My friend Tonya travels with her family every year, and now she’s blogging about it here.  What fun to see where they’ve visited and read about their adventures. But I absolutely adore the map she’s posted of all the states they’ve visited.

 So I decided to do one of our own… I only included the states the kids have visited on our road trips (not the states I visited by myself). I didn’t realize we had covered so much of the Western U.S. Just need to work on heading east.   Guess Tonya’s family covered the east and we’ve got the west

visited 17 states (34%)
Create your own visited map of The United States or try another Douwe Osinga project